Now that's pretty damn close. Maybe it will come down on my ex wife's house

News Article said:

The asteroid will make its closest approach at 9:26 a.m. EDT (1326 GMT) on June 27 and will pass just over 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, NASA officials say. At that particular moment, the asteroid — which scientists have named 2011 MD — will be sailing high off the coast of Antarctica, almost 2,000 miles (3,218 km) south-southwest of South Africa.

Lulz ... this is a work friendly forum (for the most part) so please do not post a graphic explaination for Mussels as to how your wife got you interested in that site.
(It's okay to PM both of us with pics though. )

On topic : Article says it's the size of a tour bus. That means we should be able to grab it as it's passing by with a little quick maneuvering of the ISS. Maybe has space pirate booty buried on it?

I'm sure there are a fair few space rocks which have not been mentioned which have cut through our atmosphere.
I remember seeing one huge blue/white space rock fly through the atmosphere a few years ago over this way towards the Tasman.

Out this way the plates are still moving creating new fault lines in a place I plan to move near in a years time....if the after shocks stop by then....

Earthquakes, Tsunamis, metldowns, frequent hacking success.....

The warm up for what is supposed to be happening in 2012 or just being spread out?

Let's say that this is an "earth killer" and they aren't telling us.
So what? I'm doing what I wan't to be doing and you should be too.
If you're not, you may want to re-assess your life.
Your life could end at any second due to a million reasons.
Git 'er done.

Lulz ... this is a work friendly forum (for the most part) so please do not post a graphic explaination for Mussels as to how your wife got you interested in that site.
(It's okay to PM both of us with pics though. )

On topic : Article says it's the size of a tour bus. That means we should be able to grab it as it's passing by with a little quick maneuvering of the ISS. Maybe has space pirate booty buried on it?

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If it was of that size and actually hit the earth, it would wipe out a lot of people. For those of you not familiar with the Tunguska event:

Wikipedia said:

The Tunguska event, or Tunguska blast or Tunguska explosion, was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7:14 a.m. KRAT (0:14 UT) on June 30 [O.S. June 17], 1908.[1][2][3][3]The explosion is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded varying estimates of the object's size, with general agreement that it was a few tens of metres across.[4]
The number of scholarly publications on the problem of the Tunguska explosion since 1908 may be estimated at about 1,000 (mainly in Russian). Many scientists have participated in Tunguska studies, the best-known of them being Leonid Kulik, Yevgeny Krinov, Kirill Florensky, Nikolai Vladimirovic Vasily, and Wilhelm Fast.[5]
Although the meteoroid or comet burst in the air rather than hitting the surface, this event is still referred to as an impact. Estimates of the energy of the blast range from 5 to as high as 30 megatons of TNT (21–130 PJ),[6][7] with 10–15 megatons of TNT (42–63 PJ) the most likely[7]—roughly equal to the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb tested on March 1, 1954, about 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, and about one-third the power of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.[8] The explosion knocked over an estimated 80 million trees covering 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi). It is estimated that the shock wave from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter scale. An explosion of this magnitude is capable of destroying a large metropolitan area.[9] This possibility has helped to spark discussion of asteroid deflection strategies.
The Tunguska event is the largest impact event over land in Earth's recent history.[10] Impacts of similar size over remote ocean areas would most likely have gone unnoticed[citation needed][dubious – discuss][11] before the advent of global satellite monitoring in the 1960s and 1970s